SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 9:04 P.M. ET: 

DUE PROCESS?  WHAT A STRANGE CONCEPT? – FROM COLLEGE FIX:   For too long, colleges and universities have ignored the sacred American principle of due process, refusing to allow students accused of sexual offenses to confront and cross-examine their accusers. That may be changing, however: Just recently U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow ruled that, at the University of Michigan, a student who has been accused of rape must be allowed to confront the alleged victim as part of a “live hearing.”  Oh dear.  An actual hearing?  With rules that respect civilized concepts of law?  Is this the end of "safe spaces"?  I sure hope so.

THE MAN STANDS CONDEMNED – FROM DAILYWIRE:   According to the Left, Brett Kavanaugh is unqualified for the Supreme Court not because he lacks the credentials or even because he's conservative, but rather for the intersectional crime of being straight, white, and male.  Even though the Left fervently opposed the nomination of Justice Clarence Thomas to the point of slandering his good name and would have raged against whomever President Trump nominated no matter their color or sex, leftists from late-night to the NY Daily News are all saying that Brett Kavanaugh is just 50 shades too white for the SCOTUS job.  Over at CBS, Stephen Colbert joked that Kavanaugh passed President Trump's "white guy bingo" for the nomination.  Pulling a BINGO card from his pocket, Colbert exclaimed, "You see, all the squares say 'white guy.'"  Jimmy Kimmel played the exact same hand over at ABC, saying that Kavanaugh was the "white man for the job" after President Trump narrowed the picks.  Do these so-called "comedians" understand that they're not funny?  That they do damage?  That they increase racism, rather than diminish it?  When I worked on The Tonight Show, in the Carson years, we thought "entertainment" and "comedy."  Politics only played a role when we could legitimately laugh at something happening.  Johnny kept the show in line, and lasted 30 years.

FAMILY PORTRAITS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME – FROM AFP:  Paris (AFP) - New Zealand scientists have performed the first-ever 3-D, colour X-ray on a human, using a technique that promises to improve the field of medical diagnostics, said Europe's CERN physics lab which contributed imaging technology.  The new device, based on the traditional black-and-white X-ray, incorporates particle-tracking technology developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which in 2012 discovered the elusive Higgs Boson particle.  "This colour X-ray imaging technique could produce clearer and more accurate pictures and help doctors give their patients more accurate diagnoses," said a CERN statement.  Soon they'll develop makeup for organs.

July 12, 2018